Celebrity chefs + Christmas = confusion
London - Do too many celebrity cooks spoil the Christmas broth? Well, they certainly confuse the whole festive food issue, don’t they?
With their endless books, DVDs and TV programmes full of instructions about everything from turkey gravy to trifle toppings, they certainly mix it up.
To brine or not to brine? To stuff or not to stuff? Sesame seeds or maple syrup on your jazzed-up parsnips? Perhaps some parmesan in the bread sauce this year?
When you are not looking, they add pecans to everything. Given half a chance, they’ll sneak turmeric on to your roasties.
It’s so annoying. They publish new recipes for the sake of novelty, not because someone, somewhere might actually want to eat what they’ve produced. They are monsters of the deep dish, ogres with Agas. And at this time of year, their collective expertise means one thing and one thing only - a Christmas bombe of total confusion.
Despite praise from Greenpeace, the Carbon Trust and personalities such as Jamie Oliver who have praised the company for its ethical stance on meat and buying its produce locally, the firm is by no means perfect. One of the biggest incongruencies in
